Digital Archiving: Gallery of Anonymous Memories

​Wednesdays 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM on Zoom

A 6-week deep dive into methods of curating archives of artwork, internet rabbit holes, or dreamscapes. Practice radical documentation through the use of photo, video, or sound to craft your own digital library of memory.

“I opened a gallery of anonymous memories.”
– Don Hertzfeldt, A World of Tomorrow

​Anonymous or known, memory serves us as a biological archive of moments in our mind and stored into bytes of data stored on a computer. This course offers a dedicated space to collect and organize a digital archive of your own. Work alongside others to preserve a physical or digital artwork, tell the story of an internet rabbit hole you find fascinating, or collect relics of your own virtual dreamscape. You will learn research-based methods in digital archiving, participate in daily journaling and documentation via photo/video/audio recordings, and engage in class discussions about previous works in digital preservation and community memory.

​Participants will regularly engage in and be encouraged to collect, produce, and write about the work they are archiving outside of class, while keeping a daily journal. Alexa will check in online and facilitate reading discussions to freely engage or disengage in throughout the week. Class time will include lectures and discussions on methods of digital preservation and process documentation techniques, soft critique sessions of work-in-progress, and studio time to practice alongside one another.

​You will learn both technical and non-technical skills in writing creatively about your process, photo and video documentation, digitally storing and organizing information, and 3D photogrammetry of physical objects, all correlating into a virtual exhibition space called New Art City.

​This class is for the casual diarist who wants to encapsulate their memory further through image and sound, for the artist wanting to challenge themselves in documenting their process, for the designer wishing to develop a portfolio piece with proper documentation, for the musician who wants to establish place and environment to further their work, for the 3D artist who wants to capture a dreamscape hidden with lore and digital relics, for the internet historian who wants to shine the light on obscure online communities, for the developer with an interest in old media emulation.